Employment in privatised utilities: A higher risk of precariousness?

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This paper explores the risk of precarious work in privatised utilities, based on data analysis and literature review. It examines the history of privatisation of utilities in the EU including programme countries and the impact that this has had on levels of employment. Moreover, it presents a range of measures to cushion adverse effects. This document was prepared by Policy Department A of DG Internal Policies of the European Parliament at the request of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee.

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, June 2017: Employment in privatised utilities: A higher risk of precariousness? http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/602061/IPOL_STU(2017)602061_EN.pdf

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